Note 2 — BAILY’S MAGAZINE OF SPORTS AND PASTIMES No. 552. FEBRUARY, 1906. Vol. LXXXV. (continued 2)

Race-riding, except incidentally, has nothing to do with the subject of this article; but it may be pointed out that if the Stewards at other meetings a few years ago had acted as promptly in disqualifying horses that interfered with others in a race as did the Stewards at Warwick in the case of Gun Boat, we should never have seen the “American” seat get the hold that it did. Wheatley, who rode Gun Boat, is a well-behaved jockey, whom no one would suggest would ride foul of malice prepense, or take any undue advantage of his fellows. But with the modern racing seat a horse can practically go where he likes. If any reader doubts it, let him stand in the straight when there is a field of a score or more running for a five-furlong selling handicap.